{"id":264582,"date":"2026-05-09T08:46:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264582\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T08:46:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:46:19","slug":"delta-worker-dies-after-tug-hits-jet-bridge-at-orlando-international-airport-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264582\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta worker dies after tug hits jet bridge at Orlando International Airport, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/xu7t4le8178v9y36.jpg\" alt=\"Delta worker killed at Orlando airport in jet bridge accident\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; A Delta worker died after a tug hit a jet bridge at Orlando International Airport, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The incident happened Thursday evening, May 7.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/fox-local\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX LOCAL APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">A tug hit the jet bridge where a Delta plane was parked at the airport gate, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Delta confirmed a team member died while on the job at MCO.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">&#8220;The Delta family is heartbroken at the loss of a team member while on the job at Orlando International Airport,&#8221; Delta said in a statement. &#8220;We are focused on extending our full support to family and taking care of our Orlando team during this difficult time. We are working with local authorities as a full investigation gets underway to determine what occurred.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Delta said that it paused its operations at the airport while it worked with investigators. One flight was canceled, but customers were accommodated on other flights, the airline said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/fox-local\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX LOCAL APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The airport also released a statement on the worker&#8217;s death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">&#8220;The MCO community is deeply saddened about the loss of an airport staff member, and we send our condolences to his friends and family,&#8221; an airport spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">No additional details have been released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story was written with information released by Delta Air Lines, the Orlando International Airport and the FAA.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/orange-county\/orlando\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; A Delta worker died after a tug hit a jet bridge at Orlando International Airport,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47,115,1335,139,141,140,628],"class_list":["post-264582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}